Display of New Skills

This past week in History, we worked in groups of 5 to create an exhibit on a category of the Industrial Revolution.  I learned many things from viewing the other exhibits, and many skills in museum curating.

The other exhibits I visited were on child labor, the revolution's effect on pollution, steam powered transportation, and new machines.  Child labor was when both genders worked together in mines, because they were small enough to fit, and they worked in terrible conditions around dangerous machines until the factory act in 1833.  The revolution's pollution was caused by the new machines and factories.  Streets would be flooded with dirty water, and poor people had to live outside. Steam powered engines connected to cities in some way, and most production of coal is around urban areas.  The steam engine allowed people to travel further distances in shorter time than before. The new machines, mostly textile inventions, there was more work to be done, which required hiring workers. The population of London increased greatly because it was a highly desirable job for women and even children.  

The museum exhibit was a new way of projecting information, and was much more interesting to learn from and create.  After reading the information about the sources we received and answered the sourcing questions, it was easy to piece everything together.  We summed up the most important information into only a few sentences, and tried to keep it interesting.  We set up the exhibit so that people's eyes would travel between information and pictures, and hold their interest.  We tried our best to use bright colors and media, as well as relevant decorations.  We came together to create a unique title, Spinning into Slavery, because it makes people wonder how those two things can possibly connect to each other.